Verizon’s feeling the love this year with a free Lumia 822 in red

The Nokia Lumia 822 has already hit the shelves at Verizon in the United States, but this time it's sporting a fancy new red shell just in time for Valentine’s Day. And it’s also available exclusively on their website for a new price - free, with a new two-year contract.

The smartphone features a 4.3-inch WVGA Nokia ClearBack OLED Corning Gorilla Glass 2 display, a dual core 1.5GHz processor and 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, and supports a microSD card up to 64GB.

The Lumia 822 is packed with an 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, support for full HD video recording, as well as a 1.2MP front facing camera. The spec list also includes WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, NFC, LTE support, and the full suite of Nokia apps.

Really? I think it is a great looking phone. Maybe not as sexy as the 820, but I can see this appealing to a LOT of folks. Another phone, by another provider, adding to and enlarging the windows phone ecosystem. How can this be anything other than great?

How many colors can Nokia produce...amazing...red, magenta, pink, white, black, cyan, yellow, lime green, grey, and I must have missed a few, pretty good deal on big red, glad they are wanting to move units.

If you are on att, vz or sprint most people switch phones and get two year contracts. Prices are quite high compared to other countries. T-mobile is the only large carrier with real pay as you go plans. Their phone selection is improving but they still don't get the phone variety the others do. They just got the iPhone recently. With only 3 major carriers sometimes only one has good network in area it is tough to switch. So it very much a monopoly/duopoly in a lot of places.

The U.S. Cell phone carriers rape us on a daily basis. The benefit you get from ATT, Verizon, or sprint for bring your own phone to their carrier is the ability to sign up for a one year contract instead of two. Big fucking deal. That's why most people upgrade their phone and sign new contracts with the same carrier for decades. They basically have everyone locked in. That's what happens when your government helps companies become monopolies and duopolies.
I really don't like it. Same with our cable/broadband companies.

Bought the 822 in white for my daughters b'day & must say it does look & feel better in person. Many hidden features to list but an awesome phone. Upgrade is tomorrow but may hold out for the aluminum 920 variant....ugh choices!

I saw this exact device on TV last night for the Verizon commercial - where the guy on the bike maps out a heart on Maps, and then sends it to his lady friend. Nice to see Verizon advertising Nokia/WP devices.

Has Verizon crippled the 822 like they did the 8X? By cripple I mean they disabled two things I know of, maybe more. 1) You can't get directions from the map if you are in a location's details. They try and force you to buy the Verizon navigation app. You have to back out of the details to get directions. That isn't the case on the AT&T 8X. 2) Verizon has disabled group texting, which isn't disabled on AT&T. My girlfriend moved from Android and used group texting all the time with her friends. But now she thinks less of WP because of Verizon's asshat decisions.